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Huizing-Machine.

Patented Jan. 13, |880.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES Gr. SHEPARD AND PETER ADAMS, JR., OF BUFFALO, N. Y., ASSIGN- ORS TO SAID SHEPARD AND WALTER J. SHEPARD, OF SAME PLACE.

FLUTING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 223,611, dated January 1.3, 1880.

Application filed May 13, 1878.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, CHARLES G. SHEP- AED and PETER ADAMs, Jr., both of the city of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fluting-Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to that class of fluting machines in which a corrugated bed-plate and a corrugated roller are employed. In th is class of utingmachines it is desirable that the handle ofthe roller should be so arranged that a direct pressure can be brought to bear upon the roller. M

The object of our invention is the construction of a simple and cheap Hating-roller of this character; and it consists in the particular construction of the device, as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is an end elevation of our improved uting-roller. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section thereof'.

Like letters of reference designate like parts in both gures.

A represents the cylindrical body of the tintin g-roller, provided on its periphery with teeth or corrugations, in the usual form. B B are the end plates ofthe roller, and C C are short 3o journals arranged centrally on the end plates, B. E is a bifurcated or U-shaped bar, which straddles the iluting-roller and is sprung over the journals C, its ends being provided with openings, in which the journals revolve. E is a shank arranged centrally on the bifurcated bar E and in the same plane with the same. F is the handle proper, consisting of a single bar secured at its center to the shank E', at right angles thereto and in aplane which intersects the axis of the roller at right angles. The handle-bar F is preferably cast hollow, and the shank E constructed with a reduced top portion, which projects through the handlebar and is riveted over at the upper side thereof, whereby the handle-baris rlnly and cheaply secured to the shank.

This construction and arrangement of the handle renders the device very simple and duraf ble, and at the same time enables the roller to be more conveniently operated than ordinary rollers, and permits the pressure to be exerted upon the roller directly by placing the hand centrally above the roller, whereby a better impression is produced on the fabric without requiring an unusual effort on the part of the operator.

We claim as our invention- The combination, with the iiuting-roller A,

provided with journals C C, of the bifnrcated or U-shaped bar E, central shank, E', and the single handle-bar F, secured at its middle to the shank E', at right angles therewith, and extending across the bar E and the roller.

CHARLES Gr. SHEPARD. PETER ADAMS, JR. Witnesses y JNO. J. BONNER, GHAs. J. BUcHHErr. 

